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  1. JB0
    I've heard of those before. I can't rightly fathom the licensing mess that led to them. The Leader-1 model... I would totally have accepted that back in the day. Cy-Kill strikes me as a bit wrong, though, since... you know, the bike is supposed to turn into the robot, not armor for ANOTHER robot.
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    Edit to add: @CoreyD Exactly! It's as much of a head as Shockwave from that other franchise has! Oddly, I recall molded-in sensor details that do not appear in toy photos, though Baron von Joy DID have green eye decals on the underside of the cockpit-head(flanking that oh-so-smug grin from the cartoon).
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    And of course, the awesome evil space car was just named "Psycho" Which is not to say the competition's naming did not ALSO fall to the level of "random dictionary words" for a large number of their toys.
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    Nice, but it's still just a Bug Bite knockoff.
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    Baron von Joy was friggin' awesome. Haters gonna hate.
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    That's hot. Not sure it's 150 bucks' worth of hot, but it's tempting.
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    If by weird, you mean awesome. Incidentally, there were two kinds of larger toy. The awesome cars with cockpit heads, and upscaled versions of some of the smaller toys. The latter were decidedly less awesome.
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    The big concern long-term is going to be temperature. Most space probes have heaters to keep the more delicate partd from being damaged by the cold. I assume Philae is no different. With no power, Philae's heater is off. When the sun comes back, it'll be a crapshoot if it comes back up fine or if the the thermal transitions have cracked solder joints left and right. I'm rootin' for it, but I wouldn't get my hopes up.
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    On the other hand, that thing had 1 axis of movement in one joint. Space car arms can't even swing forward. He can go from held overhead to held straight out like a T. Store shelves today wouldn't put up with that from the bootlegs.
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    No he didn't. The spaceship landed itself, he just watched fifteen minutes later.
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    My god, that was a Happy Meal toy?!? I got one those ages ago(little futuristic car one) and thought it was just such a neat little robot. Always wanted to know more about whatever line it came from, never knew where to look. Edited to add: I'm not saying it was a masterpiece of engineering, mind you. Just that the aesthetics of the thing were awesome.
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    Oddly, that's the same answer I got the other place I asked. ... Nintendo is so much more RISQUE thasn they used to be.
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    One of my few... I think only, actually... to make it to the modern era. Plastic discoloration and paint chipping have taken their toll. But 2-axis shoulders!
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    Look, I don't need all of them back, but the drilltank guy was awesome.
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    I'm confused as to how Bayonetta can have short hair now if her clothes are made from her hair.
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    In fact, just travelling around the world on a jetplane affects time. You're a few microseconds younger than you would be if you'd stayed on the ground. (As Stephen Hawking noted, exploiting this to extend your life doesn't work because the slight gains are more than offset by the poor health effects of eating airline food.) Basically, though... relativity is friggin' magic. No one understands it. Not even Einstein.
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    I had a bunch of 'em, because I was a kid that didn't care as long as they were robots, and it was far easier to sell mom on buying a new GoBot. I recall substituting the GoBot flying saucer for Cosmos in my Transformers toy sessions. And Bug Bite filled in for Bumblebee. Stacks, however, did NOT fill in for Optimus Prime, even though I didn't own a Prime. I do NOT recall what happened to the oatmeal box they were all stored in. One of my few childhood memories I can't account for. I probably left them at someone's house and they never made it back to me, since that oatmeal box went everywhere I did.
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    There you have it. Angled thrust solves all issues!
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    Aren't the FAST boosters also vectored? They could angle them so it's off-axis thrust to counter the rotation. Inefficient, sure, but in my mind the FAST packs were a retrofit anyways, so those limitations are understandable.
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    (And if they aren't locked at 30FPS and with a max resolution of 1920x1080)
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    I think without tan looks far better, but a full-body tan would be better than either option. Your mileage may vary.
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    You forgot "lazy ports of console games six months after everyone else finished them" and "weird 'things' made by one guy in his garage that no one actually wants." Oh, also "japanese porno games."
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    Likewise. I don't regret watching Mac7. I have very mixed feelings about it, and think it could've been done far better with mostly slight changes, but overall I enjoyed the run.
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    Score one more for DYRL. There's some crazy attention to detail in parts of that movie.
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    Absolutely! He counts DOUBLE.
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